The Victoria Racing Club has today revealed the full list of weights for the upcoming Melbourne Cup race on Tuesday, November 6.
The 183-horse field features 28 Australian horses and 155 internationals, with weights ranging all the way from the race-minimum 49kg to the required topweight of 58kg.
Darren Weir-trained Humidor – who ran 19th in last year’s race – is the top-weighted competitor at 58kg, while Sydney Blue and Thinkin’ Big (both trained by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott) bring up the rear at 49kg.
Only four horses have been assigned the magic 54.5kg, with Bonneval (New Zealand), Duretto (Great Britain), Material Man (Australia) and Pounamu (Australia) all scoring the most common winning figure.
Additionally, only four horses have scored Rekindling’s 2017 winning weight of 52kg, in Game Starter (Ireland), Latrobe (Ireland), Thomas Hobson (Great Britain) and Yucotan (Ireland).
Some of the early favourites include Withhold (53kg, Great Britain), Magic Circle (56kg, Ireland), Torcedor (57kg, Ireland) and Kings Will Dream (53kg, Ireland).
Rekindling edged out Johannes Vermeer by 0.4 lengths in last year’s classic, although neither were listed in today’s announcement after owner Lloyd Williams expressed concern earlier in the year they’d be handicapped too heavily to compete.
2016 winner Almandin was also not spotted on the weights list.
To view the full list of 2018 Melbourne Cup weights, click here.
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